Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aboard an RB-66 that was shot down last week northeast of Hanoi. But, says Captain Gale Hearn, 34, a onetime flying instructor who specializes in night runs, "we're more scared of those mountains than we are of the Viet Cong. You learn to trust your radar out here. When the moon goes down, it's like flying through an ink bottle...
...search out targets for the bombers to hit, the Recce planes are crammed with cameras, infra-red detectors, special radar, and secret electronic devices that can jam enemy radar. With special heat-sensor equipment, they can pinpoint tiny cooking fires that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Luftwaffe's problems have been compounded by its NATO-assigned mission: to fly under the Soviet radar net and toss 100-kiloton U.S.-owned A-bombs on tactical targets. Such a mission calls for great skill in low-level flying, the most dangerous altitude for speedy jets. Germany's poor weather has made learning the art especially hazardous...
...over Soviet proposals for a joint fleet in the Pacific. The fleet was part of a comprehensive defense alliance the U.S.S.R. was trying to negotiate with the Chinese. In the months before the proposal on the fleet, the Soviets had made arrangements to establish submarine bases, missile sites, and radar installations on Chinese soil, all to be jointly controlled...
With each sortie, too, goes an "Iron Handle" of four suppressor planes-one a pathfinder able to finger SAM radar signals, the three others armed with rockets, notably the 10-ft. Shrike, which homes in on radar radiations. Last week Iron Handle flights hit ten SAM installations out of the total estimated 100 sites in North Viet Nam. Though the SAMs have had little direct success-bringing down 14 U.S. planes out of 296 launchings in the year since the first was fired -they do aid the enemy in another respect. Because SAMs are most effective at high altitudes, they...